宋高僧傳 16.29

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釋慧則，姓糜氏，吳郡崑山人也。九歲，博遊才義，總翫儒經。善種發萌，條然厭俗，以大中七年就京西明寺出家。勤知諷誦，皆如曾習。九年於本寺承恩得度。十四年，棲法寶大師法席覆講，當年勅補備員大德。咸通三年，就崇聖寺講《俱舍論》并《喪服儀》，出《三界圖》一卷。七年，於祖院代暢師講。十五年，勅署臨壇正員。廣明元年，巢寇犯闕，關中俶擾，出華州下邽避亂。中和二年，至淮南，高公駢召於法雲寺。講罷還吳，刺史楊公苦留，却遊天台山國清寺挂錫。乾寧元年至明州育王寺，撰《塔記》一卷，出《集要記》十二卷。武肅王錢氏命於越州臨壇。以開平二年八月八日示疾坐亡。受生七十四，法臘五十四。窆于鄮山之岡。八戒弟子刺史黃晟營塔。則生常不好訐直，以撝謙推人為上。除講貫外，輪誦經呪，自《法華》已降可三四十本，以資口業。覽大藏教兩遍，講鈔七十遍，《俱舍》、《喪儀》、《論語》各數遍。清苦執持，近古罕有。入室弟子希覺最露鋒頴焉。又元表者，貞諒之士也，言多峭直，好品藻人事，而高義解，從習毘尼，兼勤外學，書史方術，無不該覽。早預京師西明寺法寶大師講肆，迨廣明中，神都版蕩，遂出江表，居越州大善寺，講《南山律鈔》。諸郡學人，無不趨集。表義理縱橫，善其談說，每揮麈柄，聽者忘疲，號鑑水闍黎。著《義記》五卷，亦號《鑑水》。出門人清福，冠其首焉。

Śramaṇa Huize was surnamed Mi and was a native of Kunshan in Wu Commandery. At nine years old, he ranged widely in talent and scholarship, taking delight in all the Confucian classics. When the good seeds sprouted, he grew utterly weary of the secular world, and in the seventh year of the Dazhong reign era went to Ximing Temple in the capital to leave household life. He applied himself diligently to chanting and reciting, doing so as if he had practiced it before. In the ninth year, through imperial favor, he received ordination at his home temple. In the fourteenth year, he took a seat in Grand Master Fabao's dharma assembly to repeat the lectures, and that same year was imperially appointed as a supernumerary bhadanta. In the third year of the Xiantong reign era, he went to Chongsheng Temple to lecture on the Abhidharmakośa-śāstra and the Protocols for Mourning Attire, and produced the One-Roll Diagram of the Three Realms. In the seventh year, he lectured at the Ancestral Cloister on behalf of Master Chang. In the fifteenth year, he was appointed by imperial order as a full member officiating at the altar. In the first year of the Guangming reign era, when the rebel Huang Chao invaded the palace and the Guanzhong region was thrown into turmoil, he left for Xiagui in Huazhou to avoid the chaos. In the second year of the Zhonghe reign era, he arrived in Huainan, where Lord Gao Pian summoned him to Fayun Temple. Having finished lecturing, he returned to Wu; the regional inspector, Lord Yang, earnestly urged him to stay, but he instead traveled to Mount Tiantai and hung up his staff at Guoqing Temple. In the first year of the Qianning reign era, he arrived at King Aśoka Temple in Mingzhou, where he composed a one-roll Record of the Stupa and produced the twelve-roll Record of Collected Essentials. King Wusu of the Qian clan commanded him to officiate at the altar in Yuezhou. On the eighth day of the eighth month of the second year of the Kaiping reign era, he manifested illness and died sitting upright. He lived seventy-four years, with a dharma age of fifty-four. He was entombed on the ridge of Mount Mao. His eight-precept disciple, Regional Inspector Huang Sheng, constructed a stupa for him. In life, Ze generally disliked sharp directness, prizing deference and deferring to others above all else. Aside from lecturing and reciting, he chanted sūtras and dhāraṇīs in succession, some thirty to forty texts from the Lotus Sūtra downward, to cultivate the karma of speech. He perused the teachings of the Tripiṭaka twice, lectured on the commentaries seventy times, and lectured several times each on the Abhidharmakośa, Mourning Protocols, and the Analects. His pure and austere observance was rarely matched in recent times. His disciple who entered his chamber, Xijue, showed the most prominent sharpness. Further, Yuanbiao was a man of uprightness and integrity whose speech was often stern and candid; he was fond of appraising human character, held exegetical understanding in high esteem, practiced the vinaya under teachers, and also diligently pursued external learning, having fully mastered books of history and technical arts. Early on, he joined the lecture hall of Grand Master Fabao at Ximing Temple in the capital. Around the Guangming reign era, when the sacred capital fell into turmoil, he went east of the Yangtze and lived at Dashan Temple in Yuezhou, lecturing on the Nanshan lüchao. Scholars from various commanderies all gathered there. Biao commanded doctrine with ease and was skilled in exposition; whenever he waved his chowry, the listeners forgot their fatigue, and he was known as the Jianshui Ācārya. He wrote a five-roll Record of Meanings, also titled Jianshui. His disciple Qingfu was the foremost among his students.